Street Fighter franchise producer vows to fans to make the fifth installment to be worth the wait as the team has been able to evolve further from its previous titles that anyone would expect.
Yoshinori Ono told Edge magazine in an interview that there is so much fans should expect from Street Fighter 5 as they are considering a lot of things coming from fans' support for the fighting video game. According to Ono, the development team behind the upcoming title is doing rebalancing in the past seven years working it in the lab.
"With Street Fighter 5, we have a fantastic opportunity to create something with a larger scope, a game that encompasses all that Street Fighter has become in the last few years, but which also expands on that to become something it has never been before as well. So now we want to create something that nobody is expecting. It's going to be a title that caters to fans, of course, but one that also invites completely new players onto the scene. Street Fighter 4 was about reviving a passion. Street Fighter 5 is about growing that passion," said Ono.
The franchise producer stressed that the game was "comfortably the most straightforward" in his long-term career with Capcom. "I've worked on many different projects within Capcom, but in my career here...this game was probably a hundred times easier to get off the ground than the previous one," he added.
Ono also stressed that the new team behind the Street Fighter 5 is very much passionate and eager, making himself more of a mentor than a student. He said: "I'm trying to impart my knowledge to the different key people on the title in order to teach them everything I know about how to make fighting games and how to grow and nurture a community around the game. It's bringing up the next generation of creators."
Street Fighter 5 is slated to an spring 2016 release to PlayStation 4 and PC.
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